Joseph is a fruitful bough, ¹  a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches ²  climb over the wall.

I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain ¹  my covenant with you.

The Lord ¹  made his people very fruitful, and made them ²  more numerous than their ³  enemies.

They rejected the fruitful land; ¹  they did not believe his promise. ² 

and a fruitful land into a barren place, ¹  because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Mourn over the field, ¹  over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

But as for you, ¹  be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

I will make you ¹  extremely ²  fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. ³ 

He named the second child Ephraim, ¹  saying, ²  “Certainly ³  God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

The Israelites, ¹  however, ²  were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, ³  so that the land was filled with them.

Little by little ¹  I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

God blessed them ¹  and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” ² 

May the sovereign God ¹  bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! ²  Then you will become ³  a large nation. ⁴ 

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

“‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, ¹  planted by water. It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

God blessed ¹  them and said ²  to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! ³  Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.” ⁴ 

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. ¹  I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. ²  He will become the father of twelve princes; ³  I will make him into a great nation.

Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. ¹  Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants! ² 

He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful ¹  and will multiply you. ²  I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants ³  as an everlasting possession.’ ⁴